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| Author | person who writes a piece of literature |
| Antagonist | Character or idea that causes conflict to the main character |
| Antithesis | Oxymoron |
| Characters | People or animals in a story |
| Climax | high point or turning point of the action |
| Conflict | Problem(s) in a story which trigger action |
| Crisis | the main event lieading to the climax |
| Denouement | final solution or outcome(including action after the climax) |
| Dialogue | conversation carried on by the characters in a story |
| Drama | genre of literature which inclueds all plays |
| Essay | genre of writing directly expressing an author's viewpoint |
| Falling Action | action occuring after the climax |
| Figure of Speech | literary device used to convey special meanings |
| Metaphor | comparison of dissimilar things(without using like or as) |
| Personifications | an author gives human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea |
| Simile | comparison of unlike things using like or as |
| Symbol | a concrete object used to represent an idea |
| Flashback | returning to an earlier time period in a story in order to make something clear |
| Foreshadow | author's suggestion of what is to come by giving clues or hints |
| Genre | type or form or leterature |
| Irony | use of a word or phrase to mean the opposite of its normal meaning |
| Dramatic Irony | reader sees character's mistakes which he is unable to see himself |
| Verbal Irony | witer says one thing and means another |
| Irony of Situation | great difference between the purpose of an action and its outcome |
| Moral | value or lesson the be learned( not the same as theme) |
| Motif | an often repeated character, incident, or idea |
| Recurring Theme | MOTIF |
| Narrator | person telling the story |
| Novel | lengthy fictional work |
| Oxymoron | a combination of contradictory terms. |
| Plot | action of a story; series of related events which comprise a story |
| Plot Line | graphic representation of the action or events of a story |
| Poetic Justice | when a character "gers what he deserves" in the end. |
| Apostrophe | spokento someone as if he were present |
| Ballad | poem set ot music that tells a story |
| Couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry with an end rhyme |
| Epic | book length poem that tells the story of a hero |
| Free Verse | poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme |
| Narrative | poetry that tells a story |
| Point of view | vantage point from which the story is told |
| First Person - Narrator | character named I tells the story |
| Third Person - Narrator | story is told by someone outside the story |
| Omniscient - Narrator | god-like intuition. narrator can relate thoughts and feelings of all characters |
| Limited Omniscient - Narrator | narrator can relate thoughts and feelings of one character |
| Objective - Narrator | narrator sees and records actions without any characters thoughts or feelings |
| Protagonist | main character |
| Realism | attempt to protray life as it really is by paying close attention to detail |
| Recurring Theme | an often repeated character, incident, or idea |
| Resolution | where a problem is solved; it brings the story ton a satisfactory end |
| Rising Action | series of incidents in the plot leading to eh Climax |
| Satire | use of humor to ridicule the vices and follies of mankind in order to bring about change |
| Setting | time and place of a story |
| Sonnet | poem consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter |
| Shakespearean Sonnet | sonnet end in a couplet ( let 2 lines rhyme) |
| Style | how an author writes rather than what he writes |
| Subplot | smaller plots which go together to form a larger story, usually a novel |
| Theme | a statement about life that the author is trying to get across to the reader in a particular piece of literature |
| Title | name given by the author to a piece of writing |
| Tone | attitude of an autor towards his audience and characters |
| Total Effect | final impression left on the reader by a piece of leterature |
